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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

✍️ Top Quotes From the Book

• A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
• Therefore, we can speak of finite games as having temporal boundaries—to which, of course, all players must agree.
• Finite games can be played within an infinite game, but an infinite game cannot be played within a finite game.
• Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.
• Training repeats a completed past in the future. Education continues an unfinished past into the future.
• What one wins in a finite game is a title.
• Although infinite players choose mortality, they may not know when death comes, but we can always say of them that “they die at the right time” (Nietzsche). The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
• A title effectively takes a person out of play.
• Titles are abstractions; names are always concrete.
• Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
• For this reason it can be said that where a society is defined by its boundaries, a culture is defined by its horizon.

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